Do you know any nice, good intelligent people who do not belong to any religion?

Question

Please share.

Answer 1

Yes. I'm sitting on his lap right now. He's my bestest friend. Awwwwww....

~Morg~

Answer 2

Um, most of the nice, good intelligent people I know don't belong to any religion. I don't know how to share beyond that. Washington State is the 2nd most "unchurched" state in the USA and like minds attract I guess.

Answer 3

My sister and my husband are two for starters. Actually I know a great number of intelligent people who don't belong to any religion.

Answer 4

Yes, I know several people who are spiritual rather than religious and I include myself in that category. Religion comes from the experiences and teaching of men. Spirituality comes from God or whatever you wish to call the higher power. I believe the Higher Power is much to powerful for me or any other human to define.

Answer 5

Yes. The most intelligent people I know do not subscribe to religion.

Answer 6

yes, the most intelligent people in the world, scientists particularly, are usually atheist/agnostic. however, it is important to remember science makes the mistake of believing human intelligence matches Godly intelligence. if God did not want his existence to be obvious, there would be no need for faith, and he would not have named it the highest virtue; furthermore, it's seems most likely that God's intellect far supasses human's

Answer 7

Do you know any bad, stupid people who belong to a religion? (Sorry, that question just HAD to be asked.) Such generalisations on character based solely on religious beliefs are rather idiotic, in my point of view.

Having no religion does not correspond with being "bad." For example, let's look to the United States. I feel it safe to say that liberals are not as religious as conservatives, on a whole. So, let's compare the crime rates of red states and blue states: Of the top twenty-five states with the lowest crime rate, 62% are blue (democratic/liberal) while 38% are red (republican/conservative). Of the most dangerous twenty-five, 76% are red and 24% are blue. Three of the five most dangerous cities are in Texas, the state many correspond with conservative attitudes. Twelve states with the highest rates of burglary are red. Twenty four of twenty nine states with the highest theft rates are red. Of twenty-two with the highest rates of murder, seventeen are red.

As for intelligence, many studies have been done that show that the more educated a person is, the LESS likely it will be that he/she will be religious. "In 1986, an essay in the magazine Free Inquiry, which is published by Paul Kurtz's Council for Secular Humanism, summarized studies on religiosity and intelligence.[1] In it Burnham Beckwith, the author of self-published and subsidy-published books on socialism and futurism,[2] summarized studies on religiosity and its relation with attributes that he considered positively linked with intelligence: IQ, SAT scores, "success", and academic certification. Although conceding that it was easy to find fault with the studies he reviewed, "for all were imperfect," he contended that the studies he examined, taken together, provided strong evidence for an inverse correlation between intelligence and religious faith in America. Beckwith's essay in a political magazine dedicated to the promotion of atheism should not be confused with a scientific study of the topic, however.

His essay said:

In this essay I have reviewed:

1. sixteen studies of the correlation between individual measures of student intelligence and religiosity, all but three of which reported an inverse correlation.
2. five studies reporting that student bodies with high average IQ and/or SAT scores are far less religious than lower-scoring student bodies;
3. three studies reporting that geniuses (IQ 3+ standard deviations above average) are much less religious than the general public;
4. seven studies reporting that highly successful persons are much less religious in belief than are others; and
5. eight old and four new Gallup polls revealing that college alumni (average IQ about one standard deviation above average) are much less religious in belief than are grade-school pollees

. . . All but four of the forty-three polls I have reviewed support the conclusion that native intelligence varies inversely with degree of religious faith; i.e., that, other factors being equal, the more intelligent a person is, the less religious he is." -Burnham Beckwith's Research

Answer 8

Yes, lots--many of my friends from college are atheists or agnostics. My mentor also does not participate in any religion--brilliant poet, wonderful teacher, great father to his kids, great friend.

Answer 9

Both my brothers have either a master's or a doctorate. Both are intelligent, moral, compassionate,caring and have a sense of humor. Both are atheists.

Answer 10

I have a nice redheaded friend who is an atheist like me. She's in college now and she's very nice and cool.